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<text id=90TT1983>
<title>
July 30, 1990: American Notes:Florida
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 23
American Notes
FLORIDA
Victory For a Terrorist
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<body>
<p> "The Venezuelans stiffed us. They really did." The Bush
Administration official was complaining about how Venezuelan
authorities placed Orlando Bosch, a convicted anti-Castro Cuban
terrorist, on an airliner bound for Miami in February 1988. His
arrival in the U.S. presented the Reagan Administration with
a quandary: lock Bosch up or free a man widely seen as a hero
in Florida's Cuban-exile community?
</p>
<p> For more than two years, Reagan and Bush officials tried to
avoid facing the issue. They treated the former pediatrician,
now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed
in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a
country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans
pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department
yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one
official: "The Cuba lobby did it again."
</p>
<p> Bosch will be kept under virtual house arrest while the
State Department tries to find a country to which to ship him.
But he seems undaunted by the restrictions. Although he must
log all visitors and wear an electronic anklet, Bosch vows that
he will "speak to anybody I want to" during the three hours a
day he is free to walk the streets of Miami's Little Havana.
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